Rush Limbaugh Resigns as Titular Head of Republican Party
Gives the Title He Says He Does Not HaveTo Colin Powell
Rush Limbaugh told all who would listen that the "drive-by media" and the Democrats had appointed him to a position he never asked for, was never elected to, was never officially appointed to, and actually did not hold -- the "titular" leadership role in the Republican Party. After repetitiously pointing these things out, Limbaugh then said that he resigned.
He resigned from a position he says he didn't hold. So why resign? Because he does hold the titular lead role in the disorganized Republican political machine at the moment. His is the power to have people like Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele apologize for calling him a mere "entertainer." It wasn't like he insulted Limbaugh.
Or did he?
But Rush Limbaugh made it clear that he was not and had never been the titular head of the Republican Party. Then he resigned from that unoccupied position.
And if that weren't ridiculous enough, he then appointed no longer Republican enough for Limbaugh former Secretary of State Colin Powell as his successor. He sarcastically appoints Powell and snidely comments on Powell's type of Republican that is just waiting to "emerge," borrowing from a speech Colin Powell made last week in Boston that he "may be out of their version of the Republican Party, but there's another version of the Republican Party waiting to emerge once again."
But...
How does one name a successor to a position one does not, nor ever occupied? Where does that power come from? And did Rush Limbaugh not seconds before he dictated his successor say that he resigned? If one resigns, is not the power to do anything then gone? So how does the resigned unoccupier of a position of Party leadership dictate to anybody anything with regard to the leadership of said party?
Because he holds the power to do so... and he knows it.
With power sometimes comes arrogance.
Limbaugh's pronouncements smack a little of grandiose delusion and a little of power-mad pomposity... And he acquired the power through a group of Republicans reeling from several election defeats and a seeming lack of cohesion, hoping to not alienate the one segment of the Republican constituency -- the neocons -- that seemed to remain solid throughout.
Welcome to the Republican Party of Rush Limbaugh and his millions of Dittohead followers. Colin Powell's "emerging" Republicans can't "emerge" soon enough...
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Sources:
"The Rush Limbaugh Show"
Boston Herald
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Post a CommentHow very mature of you Sam. Amazing how all you Dittoheads sound alike...
water boarding is torture, and i approve of it to use on terrorists. if you dont, you can have them rape your wives and children and then behead them with dull knives, while you sick liberals sit in a koombaya circle smoking weed...
RUSH LIMBAUGH WIPES THE FLOOR WITH THE DRIVE BY MEDIA AND THE LIBS, AND THIS WRITER CANT STAND IT...WELL BOOO HOOO HOOO
It is the compliment to the authoritarina figure, Bat. The authoritarian follower must be of a complimentary mindset to the authoritarian leader, otherwise lead they will not. And you're right about arrogance. Rush Limbaugh has always had more than his fair share of ignorant arrogance...
Actually, sometimes arrogance brings power, in that some people will naturally follow a person who is full of himself bc they think there must be a reason--this is what spawns cult leaders.
There's no over-analyzation, David. Limbaugh is an idiot, spewing idotic pontifications to his prostrate and all-too willing followers, which are, more often as not, neocons with authoritarian mindsets. And while I agree that the Republican Party needs a reformation, I'd much rather see a far more enlightened conservative movement like that espoused by Powell than the Neanderthal dealings and antquated notions of manifest destiny that Limbaugh, Hannity, and those like them preach to the fearful and the easily led.
Looks to me like your over-analyzing this. The statement is actually pretty simple. Democrats have unofficially "nominated" Limbaugh as head of the GOP. Limbaugh doesn't agree with the GOP's slide to the left, so he passed it on to Powell, who is becoming more leftist by the day. Powell considers himself to be the ideal Republican, so let him have the title. Meanwhile, true conservatives can go about the business of upholding their own ideals. As far as I can tell, the Republican party, for all intents and purposes, is dead. It's time for a real conservative party to form, not a watered down version like Powell wants.
The best thing that the Republican Party could do to regain credibility with the general public would be to put Dick Cheney and Rush Limbaugh into a burlap bag and throw them into the nearest river.
No, better yet, waterboard them, and see what they say. After all, waterboarding is not torture.
...what David said!
As Tiny Tim said, "God bless us, every one.".... and, good riddance to Rush-the-windbag.